New Brunswick Military Heritage Series – serie
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Hope Restored
The American Revolution and the Founding of New Brunswick
Häftad, 2003
183 kr
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Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England, including the Planters who, some twenty years earlier, had taken over the farms of the expelled Acadians. Between family ties and …
Riding Into War
The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919
Häftad, 2004
160 kr
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On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines. One night, Johnston was hauling guns back from the front line. Suddenly, in the darkness and pouring rain, he, his team, the wagon, and the guns …
Road to Canada
The Grand Communications Route from Saint John to Quebec
Häftad, 2005
183 kr
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Since the last Ice Age, the only safe route into Canada's interior during the winter started at the Bay of Fundy and followed the main rivers north to the St. Lawrence River through what is now New Brunswick. Aboriginal people used this route as a major highway in all seasons and the great imperial …
Trimming Yankee Sails
Pirates and Privateers of New Brunswick
Av Faye Kert
Häftad, 2005
183 kr
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The word "pirate" conjures up many Hollywood images, but Trimming Yankee Sails by Faye Kert paints a very different picture. Covering the Atlantic coast from Cape Breton Island, Halifax, and Saint John to the east coast of the United States down to the Virginias, this insightful book offers a …
War on the Home Front
The Farm Diaries of Daniel MacMillan, 1914-1927
Av Daniel MacMillan, Bill Parenteau m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
189 kr
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Daniel MacMillan never saw the battlefields of Passchendaele or Vimy Ridge. A farmer in the tiny New Brunswick community of Williamsburg, he experienced the Great War entirely from the "home front." War on the Home Front: The Farm Diaries of Daniel MacMillan, 1914-1927 is a portrait of the other …
Turning Back the Fenians
New Brunswick's Last Colonial Campaign
Häftad, 2006
178 kr
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In the early 1860s, Irish immigrants in the United States were eager to help the Fenian brotherhood overthrow the British in Ireland. The American Fenians' mission: to invade British North America and hold it hostage. New Brunswick, with its large Irish population and undefended frontier, was a …
Hurricane Pilot
The Wartime Letters of W.O. Harry L. Gill, D.F.M., 1940-1943
Av J. Brent Wilson, Barbara J. Gill
Häftad, 2007
185 kr
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Harry L. Gill, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940 at the age of 18. During his short but adventure-filled career, he flew a Hurricane fighter bomber over France, England, and India and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal. In 1943 his airplane was …
Bitter Harvest of War
New Brunswick and the Conscription Crisis of 1917
Häftad, 2008
183 kr
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In 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in northern France, and a myth grew that Canada — as a nation — was born on its slopes. But the cost was tremendous: 10,000 Canadians were killed, wounded, or went missing in the three-day battle. Shortly thereafter, Prime Minister Robert Borden …
Captured Hearts
New Brunswick's War Brides
Häftad, 2008
209 kr
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Imagine you're a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war ends, you leave all you've ever known behind — your family, friends, and way of life — to begin a new life in …
Bamboo Cage
The P.O.W. Diary of Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943
Häftad, 2009
189 kr
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In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed only seventy pounds, his life hanging in tenuous balance. There were strict orders against POWs keeping …
Uncle Cy's War
The First World War Letters of Major Cyrus F. Inches
Av Valerie Teed
Häftad, 2009
203 kr
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At 31 years old, Major Cyrus Inches resolved to survive the Great War, and did so without losing his sense of humour, in spite of the tragedies he constantly faced. His letters home were stored and left undisturbed for almost ninety years. Cleverly written with wit and humour, they reveal …
New Brunswick and the Navy
Four Hundred Years
Häftad, 2010
178 kr
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From the seafaring battles between the British and the French of the 1640s to the privateers of the War of 1812, from the merchant ships of the Second World War to the construction of the corvettes and frigates in the 20th century, New Brunswick has played an important role in Canada's naval …
Battle for the Bay
The Naval War of 1812
Häftad, 2011
183 kr
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As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter in the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between privateers and small government vessels boiled in the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine. Three small …
Neighbourly War
New Brunswick and the War of 1812
Häftad, 2012
183 kr
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When most people think of the War of 1812, they think of the Niagara frontier, the British burning of the White House, the harrowing tale of Laura Secord, and the much-ballyhooed Battle of New Orleans. But there was more of British North America involved in the war than Upper and Lower Canada. With …
Aroostook War of 1839
Häftad, 2013
183 kr
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A little-known episode in North America's history, the 1839 Aroostook War was an undeclared war with no actual fighting. It had its roots in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War but left the border of Maine (then part of Massachusetts) and British North America …
Letters from Beauly
Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945
Häftad, 2016
202 kr
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Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionDuring the Second World War, hundreds of New Brunswick woodsmen joined the Canadian Forestry Corps to log the Scottish Highlands as part of the Canadian war effort. Patrick "Pat" Hennessy of Bathurst was one of them. For five years, Pat served as …
New Brunswick Rangers in the Second World War
Häftad, 2020
209 kr
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In 1943, the New Brunswick Rangers were sent to Britain, converted into a heavy weapons support unit, and shipped off to Normandy.Originating as a 19th century militia, the New Brunswick Rangers were placed on active service for the first time during the Second World War, serving first in the …
"Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers"
Canadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945
Häftad, 2019
190 kr
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Winner, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingWhat happened in Canadian Internment Camp B?From 1940 to 1945, Internment Camp B at Ripples, some 35 kilometres east of Fredericton, played a considerable role in the Second World War. Chosen for its remote rural New Brunswick …
In Perpetuity
The First World War Soldiers of the Fredericton War Memorial
Av James Rowinski, James Rowinski
Häftad, 2023
259 kr
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On November 11, 1923, the fifth anniversary of the Armistice, the memorial for the Fredericton war dead was unveiled. Popular perception is that the process was a simple one: a list of all of those who died in the Great War was compiled and inscribed on the monument. In reality, the truth is much …
Saint John Fortifications, 1630-1956
Häftad, 2003
220 kr
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Saint John became a gateway to what is now Canada in the early 1600s, and Fort La Tour, built in 1632, was one of the three main forts of Acadie. In Saint John Fortifications, Roger Sarty and Doug Knight trace the history of the port's defences, from the earliest log palisades to the bunkers, gun …
